I was suddenly zapped out of my FE obsession for a moment to suddenly feeling the need to read a lot of seinen manga.
I just now finished reading this manga called Heads:
It's a tad predictable. The twist isn't something killer (like with 999, definitely did not see that coming and I even read a few spoilers...XD), but the writing and art is superb.
It played out like a good thriller movie.
Oh, yeah, I should probably tell you what it's about! XD
It's about this guy, Junichi Naruse, who is an all around nice guy. He loves art. He loves his girlfriend. One day there is a bank robbery and he saves a little girl from being shot, only for him to be shot in the head in the process. His life is saved from a brain transplant; the first 'successful' brain transplant in the world. Is it as successful as the doctors claim?
That is my summary~! :D
Basically he has half his brain and half the donor's. He starts noticing changes in his normal behaviour and wonders if this is just the recovery process or is something not right in that brain transplant?! O3O
There were a times I would be expecting and waiting for something to happen and never does...and then I think 'Actually, it's better that nothing too big happens' I mean if something sudden and huge happened it would break off the whole realism aspect of it. Though towards the end it sorta seemed a biiiittt unrealistic, but what would I know. I dunno what happens when you share the brain of somebody else....O.o;
But that's how it was written. Realistic, but not so realistic in the Naoki Urasawa sense....or the real reality sense...XD I'm not making any sense (did'ja catch my joke there? :D). As in it's more realistic than most manga, but not realistic to be entirely believable. It's really just like a movie.
Lemme find an example of a movie this reminds me offffff....
Oh, it's like Shutter Island:
Not plot-wise, but realistically.
I don't even know what I'm explaining the extent to which it is realistic! XD Maybe just because realism is hard to explain when talking about manga. It could be realistic 'cause it could actually happen (like Tokyo Magnitude 8.0....TT^TT) or it could be realistic in how it's told. In this case it is realistic in how it's told.
Although, manga, I'm pretty sure there's a surgical procedure where they remove half your brain. Yep, it's called hemispherectomy. It's used on patients with extreme forms of epilepsy that can't be improved with medicine or other methods.
Ohoho, and even this (from wiki):
There are cases where a person that received major trauma to one side of the brain, such as a gunshot wound, has required a hemispherectomy and survived. The most notable case is that of Ahad Israfil, who lost the right side of his cerebrum in 1987 in a gun-related work accident. He eventually regained most of his faculties, though he still required a wheelchair. It was noted that reconstructive surgery was difficult due to the gunshot shattering his skull, and he is living with a large indentation on that side of his head.
Oh manga, manga, manga....XD Nah, but the story for Heads is good. I think that's really scary. Having part of somebody else's brain in your head that you don't know, especially knowing that who growing phenomenon.
Okay! GOTTA GOOOO! ADIOSSSS!!!
